Software for Introductory Chemistry
This file last serviced 4/2/99
Benjamin/Cummings (Addison Wesley Longman)
- ActivChemistry 1.5 CD-ROM
- James H. Reeves
- 0-8053-3091-7
- $28.13
- The Chemistry of Life CD-ROM
- Robert M. Thornton
- Windows and Macintosh
- 0-8053-8150-3
- $26.25
Brooks Cole
- Alchemist: The Chemical Equation Balancer for Macintosh
- Stephen J. Townsend and Joyce C. Brockwell
- 0-534-16692-X
- $50.95
- Discover Chemistry: Interactive Chemistry 2.0 CD-ROM
- Jeffrey R. Appling and David Frank
- 0-314-36134-X
- $31.95
- CHEMiCALC, "the chemist's calculator" and the CHEMiCALC Personal Tutor.
- Bert Ramsay
- Windows and Macintosh versions available
- $89 for CHEMiCALC for Windows ($69 educational);$59 for CHEMiCALC 2.0 for Macintosh;$29.95 for CHEMiCALC Personal Tutor 4.0 for Windows (for students)
Chem1Ware Ltd.
- Chem1 Concept Builder is a unified set of software developed by Stephen Lower of Simon Fraser University that provides guided, interactive and in-depth instruction in the major areas of General Chemistry at the college and advanced HS levels.
- Site licences are available for Windows and Macintosh modules on stoichiometry, atomic structure and the periodic table, solids-liquids-solutions, properties of gases, chemical bonding, electrochemistry, and acid-base theory and calculations.
- Chem1 Personal Edition for Windows is a single-user collection of all the Concept builder modules. It is distributed as "shareware" via the Internet, and free registration is available to teachers who wish to download and evaluate the material.
Exceptional Teaching Concepts, Inc. (ETC)
- EduChem HS, a set of five modules in support of introductory chemistry at the high school level. The modules are: Periodic Table, Molecular Database, Molecule Builder, Molecule Viewer, and Orbital Viewer.
- Materials in HTML format; readable by Web viewers.
- $225.00 for individual copy; $49.00 for students; $700 for unlimited site license.
Electronic Homework Systems, Inc.
- ChemSkill Foundations - Personalized Problem Sets for Introductory Chemistry
- James D. Spain and Harold J. Peters
- Windows
- $17.50 on floppies (1-890803-16-2) or CD-ROM (1-890803-17-0); network versions available
- ChemSkill Builder: Electronic Homework System - Personalized Problem Sets for General Chemistry
- James D. Spain and Harold J. Peters
- ISBN 1-890803-02-2 (1st semester);1-890803-04-9 (2nd semester);0-697-39199-X (Instructor's Package)
- Windows 3.1 or later, or DOS alone
- $13.50 for each semester of Windows version; $19.50 for the full year curriculum. DOS versions are $11.00 for each semester
Falcon Software
- Exploring Chemistry 2.0s CD-ROM
- Stanley Smith, Loretta Jones, Steve Gammon, and John Kornet
- Mac and Windows
- $39.95 ea.
- Interactive General Chemistry 1.0 CD-ROM
- Stanley Smith, Loretta Jones, Steve Gammon, John Kornet, Ruth Chabay, Elizabeth Kean
- Windows
- $495 for a single workstation; $1795-2795 for networks
- Comprehensive Chemistry 3.0 CD-ROM
- Stanley Smith, Loretta Jones, Steve Gammon, Ruth Chabay, and Elizabeth Kean
- Windows
- $695 for a single workstation; $2195-3695 for networks
- Mastering Chemistry: Electronic Homework 2.0 CD-ROM
- Patrick Wegner, Jason Truong, Matthew Wilken, Shia Asher, and Carl Prenzlow
- Mac and Windows
- $195 for individual copies; $595-1095 for networks
- Chemical Bonding 3.4 CD-ROM
- Gordon Galloway and Paul Hunter
- Macintosh or Windows
- $195.00 for a single workstation; $495-795 for networks
- SuperChemLab 3.2 CD-ROM
- Melanie Cooper
- CD-ROM for Macintosh
- $195 for one copy; 5 for $555; 10 for $1005
- Teaching Chemistry with Demonstrations
- Gilbert Haight, Loretta Jones, and Roxy Wilson
- Level I Videodisk
- $295
- General Chemistry Presentation Package 1.0 CD-ROM
- Iris Stovall and Roxy Wilson
- CD-ROM for Windows
- $295 for one copy; $895-1495 for networks
- Introduction to General Chemistry 1.4
- Stanley G. Smith, Ruth Chabay, and Elizabeth Kean
- DOS
- $280 for single users; $695-995 for networks
- Chem1 Problem Proctor 2.0
- Steven Lower
- DOS
- $195 for a single workstation; $795 for networks
- Lewis Structures and Molecular Geometry 1.0
- Andrew Montana, Patrick Wegner, and Jeffrey R. Buell
- Macintosh
- $95 for individuals; $385 for network
- Seeing Through Chemistry 3.2 CD-ROM
- Paul Rasmussen, et al.
- Macintosh
- $250.00 for single workstation; 5 for $750; 10 for $1375
- Orbitals & Electrons/ Transition Metal Electrons 1.0
- Steven Gammon
- Macintosh and Windows
- $75 for individuals; $290 for network
- The Chemistry Tutor (Chemistry Courseware Consortium)
- CD-ROM for Windows
- Price unavailable
- Atomic Orbitals CD
- Knowledge by Design
- Macintosh and Windows
- Faculty CD-ROM (Mac and PC) $125.00; Student CD-ROM (Mac and PC) and Workbook $31.25; Student Workbook $13.75
- Chem Tutor Workbook and CD-ROM
- John D. Lamb
- 1997
- Macintosh and Windows
- 0-763-70388-5
- $37.50
- Chemistry Comes Alive! (vol. 1) CD-ROM (Special Issue 18)
- Compiled by Jerrold J. Jacobsen and John W. Moore
- Windows or Macintosh
- $60
- Molecular Dynamics Simulator and Equilibrium Calculator (Volume 1D, number 1)
- G. Peter Matthews and Emerson F. Heald; Robert Allendoerfer
- Windows
- $60 for the right to make up to five copies (copying policy applies to most JCE:Software titles)
- How a Photon is Created or Absorbed: Dynamic Publication, and Window on the Solid State (2D, 1)
- Giles Henderson, Robert C. Rittenhouse, John C. Wright, and Jon L. Holmes; William R. Robinson
- Windows
- $60
- General Chemistry Collection (Special Issue 16)
- Described in J. Chem. Educ. 74, 191 (February, 1997)
- Many authors (individual sections)
- CD-ROM for Macintosh, Windows, Windows95, PC-compatibles
- $35
- Illustrated Periodic Table (multimedia program) (2D, 2)
- Paul F. Schatz, John W. Moore, and John C. Kotz
- Windows
- $60
- Periodic Table Live! (Special Issue 170
- The Periodic Table CD by Alton Banks and Jon Holmes, the Chemistry Navigator, and databases from the Illustrated Periodic Table are included in this Special Issue
- Edited by Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys
- Windows or Macintosh
- $100
- Inorganic Molecules: A Visual Database (8C, 1)
- Charles E. Ophardt
- Macintosh
- $60
- A Window on the Solid State; Videodisc Player Utility Programs (7C, 2)
- William R. Robinson and Christopher P. Saari; Jerrold J. Jacobsen
- Macintosh
- $60
- How a Photon is Created or Absorbed; Dynamic Publication; and Inorganic Nomenclature (5C, 2)
- Giles Henderson, Robert C. Rittenhouse, John C. Wright, and Jon L. Holmes; David B. Shaw
- Macintosh
- $60
- The Acid-Base Package (4C, 2)
- Richard W. Ramette and Jon L. Holmes
- Macintosh
- $60
- Demo-Deck, A Hypercard Stack of Chemical Demonstration Information; Frost Diagrams: A Tool for Predicting Redox Reactions(4C, 1)
- Fred Juergens; James P. Birk and Heidi Hocker
- Macintosh
- $60
- MolVib: Visualizing Molecular Vibrations (3C, 1)
- Daniel Huber
- Macintosh
- $60
- The Periodic Table Stack (1C, 1)
- Mike Farris
- Macintosh
- $60
- Solid State Resources CD-ROM (Special Issue 12)
- George C. Lisensky and Arthur B. Ellis
- Macintosh
- $35 until October 31, 1996
- Simulations and Interactive Resources I and II (7B,2 and 8B,2)
- John S. Martin
- DOS
- $60 and $60 (for individuals and right to make five copies)
- Animated Demonstrations II: Mass Spectrometer; Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction
- Phillip L. Pavlik
- DOS
- $60
- CAI for Chemistry (9B, 1)
- Lesile Glasser, John D. Bradley, George Brink, and Pam van Zyl
- DOS
- $60
- Oxidation Number Rules and Equilibrium Calculator (6B,1)
- James P. Birk; Robert Allendoerfer
- DOS
- $60
- Rutherford: Exploring the Scattering of Alpha Particles and Animated Demonstrations(5B,2)
- Robert C. Rittenhouse; Phillip Pavlik
- DOS
- $60
- Atomic Spectroscopy (5B, 1)
- Philip Pavlik, Robert C. Rittenhouse, Martin J. Rose William F. Coleman
- DOS
- $60
- Mass Spec Simulator; NO2/N2O4 Equilibrium Experiment (4B,2)
- D. Bruce Armitage; Teresa Anderson Curtin, Darryl Wahlstrom, James McCormick
- DOS
- $60
- Spec 20 (4B,1)
- Ralph W. Gable and James McCormick
- DOS
- $60
- PIRExS (predicting Inorganic Reactivity Expert System) and Bravais (Crystal structures) (3B,1)
- James P. Birk
- DOS
- $60
- The Acid-Base Package: A Collection of Useful Programs for Proton-Transfer Systems(2B,2)
- Richard W. Ramette
- DOS
- $60
- KC? Discoverer: Exploring the Properties of the Chemical Elements (Special Issue 2)
- Aw Feng, John W. Moore, William Harwood and Robert Gayhart
- DOS
- $90
- The Periodic Table CD (Special Issue 10)
- Alton J. Banks and Jon L. Holmes
- Macintosh and Windows
- $60
- Simulation/tutorial software for introductory chemistry; topics include Equilibrium, Electrochemistry, The Atom, Gas Laws, Chemical Kinetics, Periodic Table, and Stoichiometry
- All of the packages are available for both Windows and Macintosh environments
- $99 for single user license without manual
- Model ChemLab simulates interaction of the user with a chemical laboratory, with animation, in two dimensions.
- Versions are available for both Windows and Macintosh
- $24.99 per copy; $129.00 Pro model includes Lab Wizard
- The Chemistry Place
- This is an electronic "journal" in support of introductory chemistry
- $10/three months for a student; options for teachers and institutions
- Chemistry Explorer
- Logal
- Versions for Windows and Macintosh computers
- 1996
- 0-13-309311-5
- Price unavailable
- Chemistry SkillBuilder CD-ROM
- Steven D. Gammon and Sharon Hutchison
- Runs on Windows and Macintosh computers
- 0-13-660143-X
- Price unavailable
- Interactive Computerized Study Guide
- Julie R. Frentrup
- Macintosh and Windows versions available
- 1997
- 0-13-368515-2 (Windows); 0-13-368523-3 (Mac)
- Price unavailable
- Interactive Chemistry Journey CD-ROM
- Steven D. Gammon, Lynn R. Hunsberger, Sharon Hutchinson, and Ronald J. Wikholm
- Runs on Macintosh and Windows computers
- 0-13-548116-3
- Price unavailable
- Saunders Interactive General Chemistry CD-ROM
- Windows or Mac
- Price unavailable
- Atomic Orbitals CD-ROM
- Knowledge by Design
- Mac or Windows
- $125; $35 for student version
- Boltzmann: A Kinetic Molecular Demonstrator
- Randall B. Shirts
- DOS/Windows
- $125; $59.95 for student version
- Concentrated Chemical Concepts
- Richard Cornelius and Fred W. Clough
- (Part 1 is for general chemistry)
- DOS/Windows or Macintosh
- Part 1, $195; Part 2, $145; Complete package, $275; student version $79.95
- Concepts in General Chemistry: Formulas, Equations, & Reactions
- John Weyh, Joseph Crook, and Les Hauge
- DOS/Windows
- $60 per unit (6 units); $300 for complete set
- Diatomic: Molecular Mechanics & Motion
- Brian Reid and Bryan Host
- DOS/Windows or Macintosh
- $150; $59.95 for student version
- Inorganic Qualitative Analysis: A Simulation Using Video Images
- Joseph Crook, John Weyh, Kriston Bruland, John Peterson, George Gerhold, and Donald King
- Macintosh
- $150; $59.95 for student version
- LabSystant: Tool for Evaluating Quantitative Lab Experimental Data
- Richard Cornelius, Carl Miller and Fred Clough
- DOS/Windows
- $125
- Lewis Diagrams
- Donald L. Pavia
- DOS/Windows
- $50
- PC Mendeleev and MacMendeleev: Programs for Exploring the Periodic Table
- Jon Clardy and Fred Clough
- Mac or Windows
- Windows:$95; Macintosh:$75; $39.95 for student version
- Reaction Dynamics: Collinear Chemical Reactions
- H. Douglas Kutz and Jonathan H. Copeland
- Macintosh only
- $125; $59.95 for student version
- Tools of Chemistry
- John Weyh, Joseph Crook, and Les Hauge
- DOS/Windows
- $95; $39.95 for student version
- A variety of Apple II programs relevant to secondary and introductory chemistry. $9.95 each.
- Especially of interest to readers of this list is Chemistry at Work, a comprehensive visual database on videodisc designed to support a full chemistry course.
- $495
- Markets ChemSkil Builder for use with their texts, also Cyberchem.
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